Rallying For McCain

A few months ago he may have felt he was backing a losing candidate but earlier today,Â John McCain’s New York Chairman, Ed Cox, sounded on top of the world, as he joined an Albany rally for the GOP presidential candidate, who faces off against Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney tommorrow’s Super Tuesday primary .

State Republicans appears to have done a pretty quick pivotÂ fromÂ Giuliani to McCain, as evidenced by those who attended the rally at the Albany Crowne Plaza hotel.

Along with Joe Bruno, Alfonse D’Amato, John Faso, Jim Tedisco, William Larkin and Dean Skelos were among those present.

And Cox evoked the get-tough stance that his late father in law Richard Nixon took in sending B-52s over Hanoi — at the same time that McCain was in a North Vietnamese prison.

“That gave a message to the North Vietnames to release those POWs,” said Cox.

And yes, there was a bit of Hillary-bashing, with Rensselaer County Republican Chairman Jack Casey ridiculing her idea for ”baby bonds,” or the issuance of $5,000 to every child born in the US to help save for college or a home.

Casey said he ran that idea by his daughter who works in that Democratic stronghold, New York City, and she said “Dad, they’re all going to use it on crack andÂ they’re all going to use it on gambling.”Â
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Finally, D’Amato offered up some family news, announcing that he and his second wife, are expecting the birth of a child on Tuesday.Â
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